Speed ​​cameras – The number of bikers killed on the roads drops by 2% –

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The number of bikers killed on the roads drops by 2%

Speed ​​cameras - The number of bikers killed on the roads drops by 2% -

The National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory (ONISR) reports a drop in road fatalities among bikers in 2019 with 613 deaths compared to 627 in 2018. This decrease is part of a historically low provisional toll of 3,239 deaths, all users combined. MNC analyzes these figures.

Good news: the year 2019 records the "lowest death rate on metropolitan roads in the history of Road Safety statistics", rejoices the ONISR by counting "3239 deaths" all categories combined, including "613" drivers of motorcycles and scooters (excluding mopeds).

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Motorcyclists and scooter riders contribute significantly to these results since the number of fatalities riding a motorized two-wheeler fell by -2% from December 2018 to December 2019, against only -1% for motorists! Better yet: this value is the lowest of the decade, tied with 2013.

All the more positive as the year 2019 turned out to be excellent in terms of, as our people already know: "motophobic" minds will not be able to pretend a withdrawal from the practice of motorized two-wheelers … But we bet that other ways will quickly be found to demonize the motorcycle !

Example with the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory, which strangely neglects all these favorable indicators to engage in a linguistic pirouette: "the mortality of motorized two-wheelers is also decreasing with 747 deaths (including metropolitan France and overseas) ), while remaining high ". In short it’s good … but blah, not that much !

A record close to 2018 and far from the ambitions of 2012 !

"After four years of increase and stagnation in road fatalities in France between 2014 and 2017, 2019 therefore confirms the break observed in 2018 (-6.1% between 2017 and 2019)", prefers to underline the government body by describing the global provisional assessment showing a slight drop in other indicators: bodily accidents (-1.1%) and injuries (-0.6%).

Speed ​​cameras - The number of bikers killed on the roads drops by 2% -

As encouraging as they are, these figures nevertheless reveal a fairly moderate inflection of the accident curve in France: 2019 certainly marks a record, but remains very close to the previous year (3,488 deaths). That is a gap of only nine deaths (-0.3%) between 2019 and 2018. Positive, certainly, but clearly insufficient to achieve the ambitious objectives of successive governments…

Recall that in 2012, the then Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls planned to reach the "0" mark. Five years later, in 2017, Bruno Le Roux who succeeded him still considered this objective "". Unsurprisingly, no one dares to mention it anymore as the deadline draws to an end !

Thank you for 80 km / h, really ?

Instead, the government’s good word preaches the positive effects of lowering to 80 km / h on the secondary network! This unpopular measure – to which we come back – would naturally be, according to the ONISR, at the origin of the successive declines in mortality in 2018 and 2019…

Speed ​​cameras - The number of bikers killed on the roads drops by 2% -

"In comparison to the last five years, 209 lives were saved during the first year of the measure (July 2018-June 2019) on the network outside urban areas and off the motorway, affected by the drop to 80 km / h in the maximum speed authorized ", reminds road safety.

  • MNC of July 11, 2019 : 206 lives saved thanks to 80 km / h, according to the Minister of the Interior 

"Road mortality on this network is equivalent in the second half of 2019 to that of the second half of 2018, which confirms the effect of the measure, and this, although this network has been strongly impacted by the deterioration of the radar fleet since the end of the year 2018 ", concludes the National Interministerial Observatory … which is definitely not apart from a contradiction !

Fewer radars, fewer deaths !

Recall that "60%" of radars were degraded according to the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner and that this proportion would have even reached "75%" at the height of the movement of "yellow vests". But their repairs are still running at the beginning of 2020 with many radars neutralized – sorry, in "technical maintenance"…

Speed ​​cameras - The number of bikers killed on the roads drops by 2% -

To summarize, the change to 80 km / h would therefore have had a favorable impact on road deaths in 2019 … even though most of the radars supposed to apply it were inoperative. But then, does this mean that the fewer speed cameras there are, the fewer deaths there are on the roads? CQFD !

Not sure that this analysis is to the liking of the interministerial delegate for road safety, who repeated over and over this year that the deterioration of the radars was the cause of speeding and additional deaths. Emmanuel Barbe had even reaffirmed it when mortality had dramatically jumped from .

  • MNC of September 10, 2019 : The 80 km / h weakened by the increase of 17.9% in August

"I would attribute the relaxation of behavior to the destruction of the radars which continues, even if it is at a much slower rate", he had reacted on before ensuring that radars in good condition helped to "enforce speed limits: on roads at 80 km / h, last year they led to a significant drop in fatalities ". 

On reading the 2019 balance sheet and its historical record, it is clear that this alleged "slackening" does not impact mortality in the negative proportions which have been conveniently attributed to it. Do you think that the government will revise its repressive road safety policy for all that ?! The suspense is unbearable…

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